Classifications

• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
  • B65G—TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS
  • B65G65/00—Loading or unloading
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
  • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
  • B65B35/00—Supplying, feeding, arranging or orientating articles to be packaged
  • B65B35/30—Arranging and feeding articles in groups
  • B65B35/40—Arranging and feeding articles in groups by reciprocating or oscillatory pushers
  • B65B35/405—Arranging and feeding articles in groups by reciprocating or oscillatory pushers linked to endless conveyors
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
  • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
  • B65B43/00—Forming, feeding, opening or setting-up containers or receptacles in association with packaging
  • B65B43/42—Feeding or positioning bags, boxes, or cartons in the distended, opened, or set-up state; Feeding preformed rigid containers, e.g. tins, capsules, glass tubes, glasses, to the packaging position; Locating containers or receptacles at the filling position; Supporting containers or receptacles during the filling operation
  • B65B43/54—Means for supporting containers or receptacles during the filling operation
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
  • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
  • B65B19/00—Packaging rod-shaped or tubular articles susceptible to damage by abrasion or pressure, e.g. cigarettes, cigars, macaroni, spaghetti, drinking straws or welding electrodes
  • B65B19/34—Packaging other rod-shaped articles, e.g. sausages, macaroni, spaghetti, drinking straws, welding electrodes
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
  • B65G—TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS
  • B65G2201/00—Indexing codes relating to handling devices, e.g. conveyors, characterised by the type of product or load being conveyed or handled
  • B65G2201/02—Articles
  • B65G2201/0235—Containers
  • B65G2201/0252—Cans

Definitions

• the invention relates to a method according to the preamble of claim 1 for grouping designed as cans, tubes or cartridges, in particular empty, elongated products, wherein the, preferably cylindrical, products with a delivering conveyor, preferably from a production line for the production of products supplied and are deposited on a conveyor belt (conveyor belt) and conveyed therewith at a conveying speed along a conveying path in a conveying direction, a product group comprising a plurality of products being transferred simultaneously by transfer means from the conveyor belt into receiving means, for example a spike plate or directly an outer packaging, wherein the transfer means for transferring the products during movement with the product group in the conveying direction are adjusted at an angle, in particular perpendicular to the conveying direction in a transfer direction to the receiving means and wherein the receiving means after a transfer in each case a product group or after the transfer of several product groups perpendicular to the conveying direction and perpendicular to the transfer direction (ie preferably along a vertical axis) are adjusted to
• the invention relates to a grouping according to the preamble of claim 8 for grouping designed as cans, tubes or cartridges products, wherein the Gruppiervoriques is designed for carrying out the method according to the invention.
• the device comprises a delivering conveyor for the aforementioned products, a revolving conveyor belt (circulating conveyor belt) for conveying the products along a conveyor line in a conveying direction, transfer means for transferring a product group from the conveyor belt into receiving means, and drive means and control means for driving the drive means.
• the drive means are drive means for driving the conveyor at a conveyor speed and for driving the transfer means and the receiving means comprising preferably a plurality of drives, for example at least one electric motor, preferably a servomotor and / or at least one pneumatic drive and / or at least one hydraulic drive , It is conceivable to drive at least two of the functional units to be driven (conveyor belt, receiving means and transfer means) with a common drive. If necessary, the control means also control a drive for driving the delivering conveyor.
• the invention comprises a system according to claim 14, here a production plant comprising a grouping device according to the invention and a production device for producing the products to be grouped, which supplies the delivering conveyor with the products to be grouped.
• Grouping devices for grouping generally substantially cylindrical product units such as empty cans, tubes or cartridges are known in various designs.
• the product category "cartridges” are essentially cylindrical packages, for example for silicone or acrylic, which are provided with a cartridge bottom which can be inserted into a sleeve, around the cartridge contents (with a so-called pistol, in particular a silicone pistol) axially through the base to push out the opposite outlet.
• the empty products usually come from a manufacturing device on which they are produced and the task is to make the products in relatively large units to package, in particular to pack and to convey to bottling plants. For assembling these units, it is customary to group the products, in the simplest case a grouped product group representing an aforementioned unit - usually several such product groups are combined to form an abovementioned unit.
• FR-A-2 391 126 discloses a device for grouping continuously delivered products coming from a production line or manufacturing device.
• the products are grouped with the known device, in which two conveyor units operating in succession are controlled so that one of the conveyor unit is charged, while the other is moved to a discharge station and emptied there.
• the structure is comparatively complex and the space required large.
• the working speed (number of cycles) is extremely limited.
• a grouping device described in US-A-5,339,606 operates. Contrary to the device described above, the transfer to a conveying and grouping unit takes place continuously and always at the same location.
• the known device can work with a significantly higher number of cycles than the device described in FR-A-2 391 126 - but disadvantageous here is the effort to re-direction of the device at a diameter change of the products. This criticism also applies to the device known from US-A-5,704,195.
• a significantly improved grouping device is described in EP 1 1 14 784 B1, in which the products are not deposited directly on a conveyor belt by a pendulum belt.
• the conveyor belt stands still and the product group is displaced by a purely translational movement of a slider comprising transfer means perpendicular to the conveying direction of the conveyor belt in the receiving means.
• the flexible belt is moved back to a starting position at high speed, in which case it has to overtake the supplying shuttle bag belt and the conveyor belt.
• This can lead to a troubled transport process with large product diameters and a simultaneously high number of cycles of the delivery pendulum pocket belt due to the occurring high positive and negative acceleration.
• WO 2012/121762 A1 a method for transferring bottles in cardboard packaging is known, wherein the cardboard packages are provided on a conveyor belt, which promotes the filled cardboard packaging in a straight line.
• the bottles can be transferred by means of a slider by a conveyor belt conveyor perpendicular to the conveying direction in the cardboard packaging.
• EP 2 960 189 A1 discloses an apparatus and a method for packaging tubes, wherein tube tubes are first pushed onto two distributor plate halves of a distributor plate with the aid of slides which are stationary relative to a conveying direction of a conveyor belt are then moved relative to each other and then the tube tubes are moved by means of stationary slides on height adjustable Gruppierplatten. From DE 10 2004 026 612 A1 a non-specialist device for stacking of packaged goods and transfer of the packaged goods in a Packguttransportsystem is known.
• the invention is therefore based on the object of specifying a grouping method and an apparatus for performing such a method, which ensures that formed as cans, tubes or cartridges products even at high clock speeds of a delivering conveyor quiet or are grouped trouble-free, with the grouping should be characterized by a simple design and low changeover times in a diameter change of the products to be grouped.
• the object is achieved with the features of claim 8, ie in a generic Grouping device, characterized in that the control means for driving the drive means are designed to control this, that both the receiving means and the transfer means during the transfer of the product group, in particular synchronously with the conveyor belt and conveyed thereon, to be transferred product group, along the conveying path in the Be adjusted adjustment direction and adjusted after the transfer along the conveyor line against the conveying direction for transferring a further product group in the receiving means back.
• the invention is based on the idea to adjustably arrange both the receiving means and the transfer means along the conveying path and to adjust receiving means and transfer means during the product group transfer from the conveyor belt into the receiving means along the conveying path in the conveying direction.
• the transfer means preferably carry out a combined movement, both in the conveying direction and perpendicular thereto, in the direction of receiving means in order to transfer the product group to them. After complete transfer of the product group to the receiving means then receiving means and transfer means against the conveying direction along the conveying path adjusted to then be adjusted again with the conveyor belt or the next product group in the conveying direction in order to transfer the other product group or to transfer. This process is repeated again and again.
• the conveyor belt By adjusting both the receiving means and the transfer means together with the product group to be transferred in the conveying direction for transferring the product group, the conveyor belt must not be stopped or reduced its speed for transfer, thereby avoiding positive and negative accelerations (acceleration and deceleration) of the conveyor belt can be.
• the use of the grouping method according to the invention or the use of the grouping devices according to the invention makes it possible to dispense with any intermediate storage in front of the conveyor belt, in particular roller storage with adjustable deflection rollers, as must be used in the prior art.
• the receiving means are controlled or controlled so that they are adjusted both perpendicular to the conveying direction and perpendicular to the transfer direction after a product group transfer or after the transfer of several product groups to the following product group above or below the already transferred product groups to be able to record.
• the invention also allows a further development of the invention to be explained later, according to which the products, in particular one after the other, are transferred directly from the delivering conveyor to the conveyor belt, preferably designed as a pocket belt and not initially in a clipboard, for example one described in the prior art flexible tape must be cached, making overall a quieter and safer Product flow can be guaranteed.
• the conveyor is operated continuously at a preferably constant speed, which is in a fixed ratio to the speed of the delivering conveyor, ie at a speed which allows successively to take over products directly from the delivering conveyor can.
• the speed of the conveyor belt is preferably matched to the speed of the delivering conveyor so that a product position of a product on the delivering conveyor always coincides with the next free product receiving position on the conveyor belt.
• the adjusting movement of the transfer means and the receiving means is parallel to the product group to be transferred in the conveying direction rectilinear, i. this is designed as a translatory adjusting movement, which is superimposed in the case of the transfer means of a further, in particular translational (transfer) adjusting movement in a direction perpendicular to the conveying direction to the receiving means.
• the receiving means are not a conveyor belt.
• the receiving means by means of a robotic arm along the conveying direction back and forth and perpendicular thereto adjustable or alternatively along two angular, in particular mutually perpendicular adjusting axes, preferably one of the adjustment axes along the conveying direction or parallel to this and the other vertically in one High or vertical direction extends.
• the receiving means are preferably adjusted by two, preferably superimposed, angular, preferably rectangular, mutually oriented translational movements in each case along one of the adjustment axes.
• An embodiment of the method or the control means of the grouping device has proven to be particularly advantageous, according to which the receiving means and / or the transfer means are moved along the conveying path in the conveying direction during the transfer of the product group synchronously with the conveyor belt and the product group conveyed thereon. be moved, ie at the same speed as the product group or the conveyor belt in the conveying direction, so as to avoid positive and negative accelerations, which could have a negative effect on the product transfer process, from the outset here.
• the return movement in the opposite direction to the conveying direction after the transfer has taken place does not have to be synchronized.
• the device according to the invention is set up in such a way that the receiving means are displaced perpendicular to the conveying direction after a transfer of one product group or after the transfer of several product groups perpendicular to the transfer direction, to the following product group above or below to be able to record or record already transferred product groups.
• the receiving means preferably comprise a receiving unit which has a plurality of rows of receiving spaces or receiving elements arranged side by side along the conveying direction for respectively receiving a product.
• the receiving unit is set up both side by side in the conveying direction as well as one above the other perpendicular to the conveying direction and perpendicular to the transfer direction to take products, which is ensured by the inventive adjustable arrangement or the inventive adjustment of the receiving means after a transfer of a product group or after the transfer of several product groups perpendicular to the conveying direction and perpendicular to the transfer direction.
• the receiving unit of the receiving means after filling, so after a plurality of transfers in which one another products or product groups passed to the receiving unit to replace the filled receiving unit by an empty receiving unit, in particular automated.
• this is designed as a mandrel plate, in particular with a plurality of superimposed rows of thorns arranged next to one another along the conveying direction.
• the receiving unit is designed, for example, as a clip plate with a plurality of clip or clamping receptacles, which are preferably arranged in a plurality of rows arranged perpendicular to the conveying direction and perpendicular to the transfer direction, wherein the rows in turn extend in the conveying direction.
• the receiving unit may also be formed as a vacuum plate with a plurality of vacuum stations, which are arranged in an analogous order, with several rows are provided perpendicular to the conveying direction and perpendicular to the transfer direction one above the other.
• the delivering conveyor comprises a conveyor belt with so-called (Swiveling) transport shuttle pockets, in each of which a product can be received and which are preferably emptied by pivoting about a pivoting or pendulum axis directly on the conveyor.
• the use of a rotating vacuum drum is possible, with which the products are successively transferred to the conveyor belt, in particular in receiving pockets of the conveyor belt, wherein the vacuum drum can in turn be supplied in a variety of ways, for example by means of a conveyor belt or chain pin tape.
• conveyor belt In the conveyor belt, from which the products are transferred by means of the transfer means into the receiving means, it is essential that this, in particular moves in a straight line along a conveying path, wherein the conveyor belt is designed to be continuous or endless.
• Conveyor belt is to be understood in a broad sense and does not necessarily include a continuous support belt - possible and preferred is also a configuration with individual, interconnected, circumferential pockets, the end to each a rotating belt or alternatively to a chain are fixed.
• the receiving means there are different possibilities. In the simplest case, it is a so-called mandrel plate with perpendicular to the conveying direction, preferably horizontally, extending mandrels on which the products of a product group plugged, in particular can be postponed.
• the receiving means hold an outer packaging, in particular a cardboard packaging, and the product units are placed directly in this outer packaging by means of the transfer means.
• the receiving means have a receiving unit for receiving a plurality of product groups and the unit summarized product groups in the receiving unit, for example by means of a fixing belt and / or by filming are fixed relative to each other.
• the receiving unit is designed as Klipsplatte for clamping holding several products one above the other and next to each other or as a vacuum plate for holding several products both one above the other and side by side by applying negative pressure.
• the receiving means have a receiving unit, the holding means, in particular in the form of thorns, mechanical clips and / or vacuum suction cups, which are designed and set up to fix a plurality of product groups or products at the same time or to keep.
• the receiving unit is configured such that these products can be accommodated in a plurality of rows arranged perpendicular to the conveying path and perpendicular to the transfer direction and extending in the conveying direction.
• the transfer means comprise a slide device which shifts a plurality of products forming a product group from the conveyor belt, in particular from receiving pockets of the conveyor belt perpendicular to the conveying direction, in particular horizontally to the receiving means.
• receiving means and transfer means are preferably adjusted to two opposite, perpendicular to the conveying direction spaced sides of the product group to be transferred together with this.
• the transfer means comprise a mechanical and / or vacuum gripper for holding the transfer of the product of a product group to the receiving means, these grippers being arranged, for example, on a correspondingly controllable robot arm.
• the conveyor belt in particular arranged in pockets vacuum suction for sucking holding or fixing the products during conveying in the conveying direction.
• the vacuum cups can be designed such that the vacuum application, if necessary, is reduced to zero during the transfer to the receiving means.
• the conveyor belt is driven in the conveyor at a speed which, taking into account, preferably different, product intervals on the delivering conveyor and the conveyor belt in a fixed Relative to the speed of the delivering conveyor is.
• the speed of conveyor belt and conveyor is preferably adapted to the current cycle speed or output speed of a upstream product manufacturing device, in particular a can, tube or cartridge manufacturing, at the same time an adjustment of the conveyor belt speed and the conveyor speed is realized in this upstream manufacturing device, thus the Speed ratio of conveyor belt and conveyor always the same.
• the method according to the invention as well as the device according to the invention are also suitable in a further development of the invention for a problem-free closing of gaps on the delivering conveyor.
• These gaps in the product are detected by means of suitable sensors, for example a light barrier and the control means control the drive means so that the speed of the conveyor belt is reduced, if necessary to zero, at least to a speed which is lower than the feed speed (delivery speed) of the delivering Conveying device, wherein the delivering conveyor is preferably continuously moved further and the gap following the product gap are deposited on the corresponding next receiving space on the conveyor belt, wherein after closing the gap preferably the conveyor belt runs synchronously again with the delivering conveyor.
• control means then simultaneously drive the drive means for the transfer means and / or the receiving means such that their speed is reduced during a movement in the conveying direction, preferably in accordance with the speed reduction of the conveyor belt, more preferably also during the gap closing to move synchronously with the conveyor belt or stop when stopping the conveyor belt analogous to the conveyor belt.
• FIG. 8c shows different operating states in a grouping method according to the invention or a grouping device according to the invention
• Representations A to C show different views of the same operating state.
• the grouping apparatus 1 comprises a conveyor belt 3 configured as a pocket belt comprising a multiplicity of pockets 2 arranged one behind the other for receiving in each case a product in the form of an empty can, an empty tube or an empty cartridge, said conveyor belt being known per se and not shown for reasons of clarity, is drivable in particular in the form of at least one servo motor, wherein a shown in Fig.
• the delivering conveyor 5 is a conveyor belt with transporting shuttle pockets, not shown for reasons of clarity, which are shown for example in EP 1 1 14 784 B1 and identified there by the reference numeral four, which are pivotable about a pendulum axle and from which respectively a product can be unloaded by pivoting the respective pocket, namely directly into a pocket 2 of the conveyor belt 3.
• suction openings 13 within the pockets 2 for securely holding the products in the promotion in the conveying direction.
• the conveyor belt 3 is driven at a conveying speed in the conveying direction F which, given a spacing of products on the delivering conveyor 5, ensures that Each bag 2 a product is deposited by the delivering device, without having to vary the speed of the conveyor belt 3, regardless of the speed of the delivering conveyor 5.
• the speed ratio of the speed of the conveyor belt 3 and the speed of the conveyor 5 remains constant (except for an optional gap closing operation), the speed of the conveyor belt 3 and the speed of the delivering conveyor 5 being common to a speed (output clock speed) of an upstream manufacturing device be adjusted.
• the conveyor belt 3 and the delivering conveyor 5 are operated at the same speed - with a greater (preferred) spacing of the products on the delivering conveyor 5 than on the conveyor belt 3, the delivering conveyor 5 is operated correspondingly faster than the conveyor belt 3, but both conveyor belt 3 and delivering conveyor 5 with different speed (> 0 m / s) are operated, the speeds are in a fixed relationship to each other and (except for one any gap closing operation) can only be changed together or simultaneously - depending on the aforementioned output clock number of an upstream manufacturing device.
• the products deposited on the conveyor belt 3 are transported in the conveying direction F and reach the area between receiving means 6 and transfer means 7 in the specific exemplary embodiment.
• the receiving means 6 merely comprise, for example, a spike plate with a large number of examples horizontally here , at least perpendicular to the conveying direction F extending mandrels 8 (mandrels) for respectively attaching a hollow product.
• the transfer means 7 comprise a slide 9, which can be adjusted perpendicular to the conveying direction F to the receiving means 6 in order to transfer a product group to the receiving means 6.
• the receiving means 6 are adjusted both perpendicular to the conveying direction F and perpendicular to the direction perpendicular to the transfer direction T in order to store the next product group in the concrete embodiment in the underlying mandrel row can.
• both the receiving means 6 and the transfer means 7 are not only adjustable as described above, but along the conveyor line S in the conveying direction F and in the opposite direction, i. are adjustable in the direction of the delivering conveyor 5, in order in common with a product group to be transferred, preferably synchronously, i. be moved at the same speed as the product group in the conveying direction F during a transfer and preferably at least a short period of time before the actual transfer.
• the conveying speed of the conveyor belt 3 in the conveying direction F is independently controllable from the actual transfer and, for example, preferably linear, can be adapted to the delivery speed of the delivering conveyor 5, which preferably prefers the products as a function of a production speed upstream manufacturing device, anellet.
• a plurality of drives 10, 1 1 for driving the transfer means 7 are shown.
• servo-motor drive represented by the reference numeral 10 is an adjustment drive for adjusting the drive means or a slide plate in the transfer direction T and back, while the designated by the reference numeral 1 1 drive a drive of the drive means for adjusting the transfer means 7 along the conveyor line S is.
• This is expressly only an exemplary embodiment.
• the movement can alternatively be carried out, for example, by means of a corresponding multi-axis robot arm.
• Drive means for driving the receiving means 6 are not shown for reasons of clarity.
• the receiving means 6 are adjustable as described above.
• corresponding drive means also include a drive or a drive axle for Wegverstellen the filled mandrel plate to another packaging device, in which case the full mandrel plate is replaced by an empty mandrel plate.
• FIGS. 2a to 2c it can be seen that the products 4 are transferred in a region 12, here by way of example by swiveling corresponding transport shuttle pockets which, as explained, are not shown. Alternative transfer options, such as a vacuum drum are feasible.
• FIGS. 2 a to 2 c further products 4 have already been deposited on the conveyor belt 3 and transported in the conveying direction F along the conveying path S as compared to the operating state according to FIGS. 1 a to 1 c.
• Receiving means 6 and transfer means 7 are located on opposite sides of the products 4 perpendicular to the conveying direction F spaced.
• FIGS. 4a to 4c the transfer process has already advanced further and is about to be completed. It can be seen that both the transfer means 7 and the receiving means 6 were compared to the state shown in FIGS. 3a to 3c further in the drawing plane to the left or in the conveying direction F were adjusted and at the same time the transfer means 7 further in the transfer direction T. the receiving means 6 to.
• the products 4 of the product group P are pushed onto mandrels 8 of the mandrel plate of the receiving means 6 so provided by way of example.
• the receiving means 6 are moved into the position shown in Figures 6a to 6c, in an adjustment direction V (see Fig. 5b), which is oriented perpendicular to both the conveying direction F as also to the transfer direction T, in order to be able to feed the next or below the row of mandrels in the following transfer.
• V see Fig. 5b
• the adjustment direction V which is oriented perpendicular to both the conveying direction F as also to the transfer direction T, in order to be able to feed the next or below the row of mandrels in the following transfer.
• the conveying speed of the conveyor belt 3 does not change.
• a next or further complete product group P ' is located in a region between the transfer means 7 and the receiving means 6, they are adjusted again here, preferably synchronously with this further product group P', in the conveying direction F and the further product group P 'becomes analogous transferred to the previous description of the transfer of the product group P on the receiving means 6, whereupon again a resverberation of the receiving means 6 and the transfer means 7 takes place counter to the conveying direction F.

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